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Recovery During a Congested Schedule and Injury in Professional Football (2022)
Journal Article
Delaval, B., Abaïdia, A., Delecroix, B., Le Gall, F., McCall, A., Ahmaidi, S., & Dupont, G. (2022). Recovery During a Congested Schedule and Injury in Professional Football. International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance, 17(9), 1399-1406. https://doi.org/10.1123/ijspp.2021-0504

Purpose: To analyze the relationships between the recovery kinetics experienced by professional football players and noncontact injury. Methods: A cohort of 46 professional football players (age 24.2 [4.7] y) from the same team (French Ligue 1) was m... Read More about Recovery During a Congested Schedule and Injury in Professional Football.

Exercise-Based Strategies to Prevent Muscle Injury in Elite Footballers: A Systematic Review and Best Evidence Synthesis (2020)
Journal Article
Fanchini, M., Steendahl, I. B., Impellizzeri, F. M., Pruna, R., Dupont, G., Coutts, A. J., …McCall, A. (2020). Exercise-Based Strategies to Prevent Muscle Injury in Elite Footballers: A Systematic Review and Best Evidence Synthesis. Sports Medicine, 50, 1653-1666. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-020-01282-z

Background Exercise-based strategies are used to prevent muscle injuries in football and studies on different competitive-level populations may provide different results. Objectives To evaluate the effectiveness of exercise-based muscle injury p... Read More about Exercise-Based Strategies to Prevent Muscle Injury in Elite Footballers: A Systematic Review and Best Evidence Synthesis.

Return to Play practices following hamstring injury: A worldwide survey of 131 premier league football teams (2019)
Journal Article
Dunlop, G., Ardern, C., Einar Andersen, T., Lewin, C., Dupont, G., Ashworth, B., …McCall, A. (2020). Return to Play practices following hamstring injury: A worldwide survey of 131 premier league football teams. Sports Medicine, 50, 829-840. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-019-01199-2

Purpose: Return-to-play (RTP) is an on-going challenge in professional football. Return-to-play related research is increasing. However, it is unknown to what extent the recommendations presented within research are being implemented by professional... Read More about Return to Play practices following hamstring injury: A worldwide survey of 131 premier league football teams.

Unravelling confusion in sports medicine and sports science practice: a systematic approach to using the best of research and practice-based evidence to make a quality decision (2019)
Journal Article
Ardern, C. L., Dupont, G., Impellizzeri, F. M., O’Driscoll, G., Reurink, G., Lewin, C., & McCall, A. (2019). Unravelling confusion in sports medicine and sports science practice: a systematic approach to using the best of research and practice-based evidence to make a quality decision. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 53(1), 50-56. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2016-097239

One of the challenges of working in professional sport is the constant pressure to be innovative, to adopt new strategies, techniques and technologies to gain that all important competitive advantage. Players, managers and chief executive officers fe... Read More about Unravelling confusion in sports medicine and sports science practice: a systematic approach to using the best of research and practice-based evidence to make a quality decision.